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The Scoundrel 1935

on dvd on thru webpage www.classics2dvd.com

1935 Oscar Winners

Montage of stills from films that won Oscars for the year 1935 (presented at the 8th Academy Awards on March 5, 1936) set to the year's Oscar ...

Oak Park native created the role of Laura in 'Glass Menagerie'

When Oak Park Festival Theatre begins its run of The Glass Menagerie at Madison Street Theatre, Oct. 6, Zoe Palko, the actress playing the famously fragile Laura Wingfield, will be following some pretty big — and local — footprints.

Julie Haydon, who originated the role of Laura when the play opened on Broadway in 1945, grew up in Oak Park and River Forest.

Born on June 10, 1910 at 314 Ontario, Donella Donaldson, as she was known then, was the daughter of the publisher and editor of the Oak Leaves, Orren Donaldson. They moved around some — 156 Forest in River Forest, later 818 N. Euclid in Oak Park — until 1916 when her father sold the paper to the MacArthur brothers (Alfred and Telfer). The family moved to Hollywood, where Donaldson started a paper called the Holly Leaves (reportedly stealing the Oak Leaves' masthead) and young Donella "acquired a full-blown passion for acting," according to a July 28, 1938 Oak Leaves article titled, "Julie Haydon is Again on Cover of a Magazine" (in this case, Scribner's).

The Scoundrel 1935 - Bookshelf


The scoundrel, censorship dialogue script
130 pages
The scoundrel, censorship dialogue script


Hollywood on the Hudson, Film and Television in New York from Griffith to Sarnoff
592 pages
Hollywood on the Hudson, Film and Television in New York from Griffith to Sarnoff

126 The Scoundrel was the second Hecht and MacArthur production to be released ... scal- Highballs all around for the cast and crew of The Scoundrel (1935). ...

The Scoundrel 1935 - News


A Coward-ly lionizing of film at Lincoln Center
A Coward-ly lionizing of film at Lincoln Center Noël Coward (with Martha Sleeper, left, and Hope Williams) in 1935's “The Scoundrel.” The master liked Hollywood's take on his classic comedy “Private Lives'' (1931) with Norma Shearer and Robert Montgomery. But he was less enthusiastic about “Design

DVD Extra: When Noel met David (Lean)
DVD Extra: When Noel met David (Lean) began to be filmed without his active participation nine years later, he didn't appear onscreen again until he played the title role in "The Scoundrel,'' an eccentric melodrama filmed by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur in Astoria, Queens, in 1935.